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AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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770 points ta988 | 2 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.608s | source
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jeffbee ◴[30 Dec 24 16:44 UTC] No.42550920[source]▶
Ironic that there is a dichotomy between Google and Bing with orders of magnitude less traffic than AI organizations, because only Google really has fresh docs. Bing isn't terrible but their index is usually days old. But something like Claude is years out of date. Why do they need to crawl that much?
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1. skywhopper ◴[30 Dec 24 16:49 UTC] No.42550982[source]▶
They don’t. They are wasting their resources and other people’s resources because at the moment they have essentially unlimited cash to burn burn burn.
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2. throwaway_fai ◴[30 Dec 24 17:44 UTC] No.42551574[source]▶
Keep in mind too, for a lot of people pushing this stuff, there's an essentially religious motivation that's more important to them than money. They truly think it's incumbent on them to build God in the form of an AI superintelligence, and they truly think that's where this path leads.

Yet another reminder that there are plenty of very smart people who are, simultaneously, very stupid.